Countries of the World

This is a WebRing for sites with content relating to countries of the world, which could be anything from national languages or dialects to cultures, history and/or general information on nations, groups or nations, parts of nations or the national heritage of ex-patriots or the descendents of those nations. Do you know how many different countries exist in the world today? Even if you do, the answer may be different tomorrow! Your humble WebRing manager's paternal grandmother was born in a little vilage in Poland, but that village, which has not moved is now in the Ukraine. Her maternal grandmother was born in an even smaller village in Austria, and that village hasn't moved either... so how come it's in Romania now?